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The Literary Representation of Korean Modern Peasants and the Irrigation Complex

  • Korean Language & Literature
  • 2009, (69), pp.299-331
  • Publisher : Korean Language & Literature
  • Research Area : Humanities > Korean Language and Literature

Yun Young-Ok 1

1전북대학교

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ABSTRACT

This research is concerned about the fact that the irrigation, the cultivation, the migration of peasants had been the social complex with mutual effects. The purpose of this research is inquiry into that the representative methods of Korean modern peasants novels were diverse and the differences of those methods implied social discoursive meaning. In modern Korean society under Japanese colonial regime, the production and circulation of rice had exercised a far-reaching influence on social structure, and mediated between the Korean peasants and the colonial authority with power. Japanese imperialism had need to provide the its people a consistent supply of rice and rice field for the colonial regime and the prosecuting wars. In the modern Korea under the colonial regime, ‘the irrigating-cultivating- migrating of peasants’ had worked as social complex that interacted as a chain of social events. Japanese imperialists had progressed ‘the irrigation complex’ in a mutual cooperation of financial companies, the colonial polity, the military authorities, a police system, educational system, literary and culture, art etc. over various ranges. Korean modern novels had represented the irrigation complex in the various ways. This research looked at the facts that the representative ways of ‘irrigation complex’ had effected on its theme and characteristic. In the process of representation the irrigation complex, the novels that reflected’ the irrigation with cultivation and migration could represent those days’ social structure typically and totally. The novels that separated or limited the irrigation from its context could represent ‘constructively’ those days. Han Seolya’s ‘The Muddy Stream Trilogy (탁류 3부작)’ and Cho Jungrae’s 『Arirang(아리랑)』 had represented more reflectively ‘the irrigation complex’. Lee Taejun’s「 Peasants(농군)」 and Lee Kiyoung's 「A Son of the Earth (대지의 아들)」 had represented constructively. The novel that had been both reflective and constructive was Lee Kiyoung's 『Dumangang(두만강)』.

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